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Recent advancements in large-scale visual-language pre-trained models have led to significant progress in zero-/few-shot anomaly detection within natural image domains. However, the substantial domain divergence between natural and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Chaoqin Huang , Aofan Jiang , Jinghao Feng , Ya Zhang , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Visual anomaly detection (AD) for industrial inspection is a highly relevant task in modern production environments. The problem becomes particularly challenging when training and deployment data differ due to changes in acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Lukas Roming , Felix Lehnerer , Jonas V. Funk , Andreas Michel , Georg Maier , Thomas Längle , Jürgen Beyerer

Automatic image anomaly detection is important for quality inspection in the manufacturing industry. The usual unsupervised anomaly detection approach is to train a model for each object class using a dataset of normal samples. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuanwei Li , Elizaveta Ivanova , Martins Bruveris

Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to identify defects in unseen categories without target-specific training. Existing methods usually apply the same feature transformation to all samples, treating normal and anomalous data uniformly despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Muhammad Aqeel , Maham Nazir , Uzair Khan , Marco Cristani , Francesco Setti

With the advent of vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) in zero- and few-shot settings, CLIP has been widely applied to zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) in recent research, where the rare classes are essential and expected in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yuhu Bai , Jiangning Zhang , Yunkang Cao , Guangyuan Lu , Qingdong He , Xiangtai Li , Guanzhong Tian

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) methods entail detecting anomalies directly without access to any known normal or abnormal samples within the target item categories. Existing approaches typically rely on the robust generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhaopeng Gu , Bingke Zhu , Guibo Zhu , Yingying Chen , Hao Li , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recently, zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for industrial inspection and medical diagnostics, detecting defects in novel objects without requiring any target-dataset samples during training. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jingyi Yuan , Chenqiang Gao , Pengyu Jie , Xuan Xia , Shangri Huang , Wanquan Liu

Industrial and medical anomaly detection faces critical challenges from data scarcity and prohibitive annotation costs, particularly in evolving manufacturing and healthcare settings. To address this, we propose CoZAD, a novel zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Muhammad Aqeel , Danijel Skocaj , Marco Cristani , Francesco Setti

Zero- and few-shot visual anomaly segmentation relies on powerful vision-language models that detect unseen anomalies using manually designed textual prompts. However, visual representations are inherently independent of language. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bin-Bin Gao

Zero-shot industrial anomaly detection (ZSAD) methods typically yield coarse anomaly maps as vision transformers (ViTs) extract patch-level features only. To solve this, recent solutions attempt to predict finer anomalies using features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Dayou Huang , Feng Xue , Xurui Li , Yu Zhou

Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to detect and localise abnormal regions in the image without access to any in-domain training images. While recent approaches leverage vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, to transfer high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Matic Fučka , Vitjan Zavrtanik , Danijel Skočaj

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to detect anomalies that deviate from what is expected. In open-world scenarios, the expected events may change as requirements change. For example, not wearing a mask may be considered abnormal during a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Wu , Jianqin Wu , Xuxu Wang , Linlin Yang

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has traditionally been framed as binary classification or outlier detection, providing neither interpretable reasoning nor precise spatial localization of anomalous events. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sakshi Agarwal , Aishik Konwer , Ankit Parag Shah

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to automatically identify events that deviate from normal patterns in untrimmed surveillance videos. Existing methods universally depend on large-scale annotations or task-specific training procedures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Chao Huang , Penfei Wei , Wei Wang , Jie Wen , Zhihua Wang , Li Shen , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

Video anomaly detection (VAD) often learns the distribution of normal samples and detects the anomaly through measuring significant deviations, but the undesired generalization may reconstruct a few anomalies thus suppressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiahao Lyu , Minghua Zhao , Jing Hu , Xuewen Huang , Shuangli Du , Cheng Shi , Zhiyong Lv

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Industrial anomaly detection (IAD) plays a crucial role in the maintenance and quality control of manufacturing processes. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, Vision-Language Anomaly Detection via Contrastive Cross-Modal Training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kun Qian , Tianyu Sun , Wenhong Wang

Visual anomaly detection in multi-class settings poses significant challenges due to the diversity of object categories, the scarcity of anomalous examples, and the presence of camouflaged defects. In this paper, we propose PromptMAD, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Duncan McCain , Hossein Kashiani , Fatemeh Afghah

Existing zero-shot temporal action detection (ZSTAD) methods predominantly use fully supervised or unsupervised strategies to recognize unseen activities. However, these training-based methods are prone to domain shifts and require high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaolei Han , Hongsong Wang , Jidong Kuang , Lei Zhang , Jie Gui

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli